We are delighted to partner with Cork Zine Fest (CZF) and Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI) to present a zine making session exploring trans joy.
This session is artist-led and all materials supplied.
Workshop participants will have an opportunity to have their zine included in CZF Zine Library and Residency Exhibition at Triskel Arts Centre.
Crawford Art Gallery is delighted to partner with CZF to present events suitable for both enthusiastic zine makers and complete beginners. Cork Zine Fest (CZF) is Ireland’s first and longest running zine festival, celebrating independent publishing and DIY creativity since 2018. CZF invites groups to explore zine making as a tool for community building.
Cork City Library Saturday 8 November 3 - 5 years, 11:00am - 12:00. 6 - 10 years, 13:00 - 14:00. BOOKED OUT
Calling all beasties! You are invited to Beasts and Feasts, a zine making session for children. After looking at some of our most loved creature and food themed pieces from the Crawford Art Gallery Collection, we'll be making simple zines filled with drawings of your imaginary banquets and their attendees. Each child will go home with at least one completed zine, which can be photocopied in the library. These workshops are free to attend but spaces must be reserved in advance.
Please note that children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian at times during these workshops.
The workshop is in collaboration with Cork Zine Festival.
Click on one of the buttons below to book your place.
This collaboration will also feature events to support our ongoing programmes, including:
Crawford Supported Studios
Lonradh
Follow Your Nose, into Art
Friends of Crawford Art Gallery
TENI
Seen-Unseen
Friday 7 November, 2.30pm., Online
Seen-Unseen is an art project led by artist Clare McLaughlin for and with people who are visually impaired.
We are delighted to collaborate with Clare to host an online meet-up to explore artwork in the Crawford Art Gallery Collection by Irish artist Harry Clarke. Artist-facilitator Julie Forrester will describe the winter tale of The Eve of St. Agnes.
This event is relaxed, conversational and free of charge, but booking is essential. No previous knowledge or particular art experience is necessary.
Crawford Art Gallery has collaborated with Clare and visually impaired participants since 2014 – with a range of art encounters and tactile visits. Clare’s collaborative work explores the haptic or sensory experience of art.
Sunday 2 November, 10 am – 5pm Bandon Town Hall North Main Street, Bandon, Co. Cork, P72 E448
Crawford Art Gallery is delighted to partner with Creative Bandon and participate in this year’s Bandon Banshee Festival!
A very special opportunity for artists to draw from Amanda’s skills and perspective, the day-long masterclass will take shape through a series of exercises; a gentle invitation to take risk in a safe environment. Of her work, Coogan said 'I am first and foremost an embodied practitioner. That is to say I construct, develop and understand my way to new work through the physical activity of making. My expertise lies in my ability to condense an idea to an essence and communicate it through my body. This is, possibly, rooted in my biography; I was brought up using Irish Sign Language as my mother tongue. The body, as a site of resistance, is the centrality of my work.’
This masterclass is free to attend, but spaces must be reserved in advance. To reserve your spot, contact Marguerite creativebandon@gmail.com.
Treasures from the Crawford - Open Workshop
Thursday 13 Nov 18:00 - 19:30 Friday 21 Nov 11:00 - 12:30 Triskel Arts Centre Both of these slots are now booked out
Who's been missing art dates at the Crawford? Not seeing that special someone (or something) has been weighing heavily on our hearts, and what do we do with heartbreak? Make a zine of course!
Cork Zine Fest brings you a very exciting collaboration with Crawford Art Gallery this November. Two fun zine workshops will be devoted to works that you have missed seeing in person at the Crawford Art Gallery, hosted at our residency in the Triskel Sample Project Space. We'll be collaging, writing and drawing about them, pouring all our hearts onto the pages. The workshops are free, but booking is essential.
This collaboration will also feature events to support our ongoing programmes, including:
Crawford Supported Studios
Lonradh
Follow Your Nose, into Art
Friends of Crawford Art Gallery
TENI
Artist Talk with Amanda Coogan
Saturday 1 November Bandon Public Library, 2pm
Crawford Art Gallery is delighted to partner with Creative Bandon and participate in this year’s Bandon Banshee Festival!
Performance artist Amanda Coogan will introduce her practice with a particular focus on the series Come Then, The Birds (2021) in which the artist draws parallels between the figure of Mary Magdalene and a community of Irishwomen known as the Wrens. From Come Then, The Birds to Caught in the Furze performed at this year’s Cork Midsummer Festival, the artist uses her own body to explore social misfits, wayward and unmanageable women who refused to conform to societal rules.
Coogan has performed and exhibited her work extensively worldwide, most recently at the Royal Academy London, the Bangkok Art Biennale and the Project Arts Centre in Dublin.
This event is free to attend, open to all, and no booking is required.
Children’s Miniature Worlds Workshop
Bandon Library Thursday 30 October 3 - 5 years, 11am – 12pm 6 – 10 years, 1pm – 2pm
Crawford Art Gallery is delighted to partner with Creative Bandon and participate in this year’s Bandon Banshee Festival.
What would it look like if you could shrink the world so small it could fit inside a matchbox? Join Queenie O’Sullivan to find out! In these children’s workshops, we’ll find out together! As part of Bandon Banshee Fest, the activity takes on a spooky twist — expect miniature worlds with a hint of mystery and magic, perfect for curious young creators.
These workshops are free to attend, and will operate on a first come, first served basis. Arrive early to avoid disappointment!
Cork Zine Festival
8-26 November
Cork Zine Fest (CZF) is Ireland’s first and longest-running zine festival, celebrating independent publishing and creativity since 2018. This year, Crawford Art Gallery collaborates with CZF to bring hands-on workshops and events for all ages, taking inspiration from our Collection.
Highlights include Beasts & Feasts, a playful zine-making session for children at Cork City Library, and Treasures at the Crawford, creative workshops at Triskel Arts Centre exploring much-loved works from the Gallery’s collection through collage, writing, and drawing.
Cork Zine Fest will also support a series of collaborative initiatives with Crawford Art Gallery’s Learn & Explore ongoing programmes:
Follow Your Nose - a collaborative art programme for children by Cork Migrant Centre and Crawford Art Gallery.
Crawford Supported Studios - a sustained creative environment that centres disabled people. Crawford Supported Studios is an initiative anchored by a long-term partnership between MTU Crawford College of Art & Design and Crawford Art Gallery.
Lonradh - an arts programme for older adults experiencing memory loss, their families and carers.
TENI – Transgender Equality Network Ireland
Friends of the Crawford Art Gallery – A support group for Crawford Art Gallery with the aim to promote awareness of the gallery, its collections and exhibitions, and to foster an interest in all aspects of art, culture and heritage.
Visibility Bursary award for Crawford Supported Studios artist Tom O’Sullivan
Tom O’Sullivan has been awarded a Visibility Bursary Award from Cork City Council.
The Visibility Award will enable Tom to embark on an ambitious mentorship with artist Róisín O'Sullivan, supporting Tom to develop a new body of work for exhibition.
This youth event is presented by Trans Equality Network Ireland (TENI) and Crawford Art Gallery with artists Toma McCullim, Kai Fiáin and Stephen Doyle.
Summer Days at Cork Migrant Centre
July 2025
We had so much fun making animations, kites and more with young people at Cork Migrant Centre this July!
Summer Days is a playful art programme for children making their home in Ireland, led by Julie Forrester in collaboration with Cork Migrant Centre at Nano Nagle Place!
A big thank you to Julie Forrester and Amal Hope and all at CMC.
You can watch the animations here:
Collaboration with UCC School of BEES
In previous years the Gallery has welcomed students from the School of BEES with lecturer Eoin Lettice as part of their Visual Representations of Biological Control module. We were delighted to keep up the collaboration despite the Gallery closure, with artist and tour guide Julie Forrester, presenting works from the collection that engage broadly with the natural world and incorporating other works by the artists for further context. The talk focused on approaches to subject matter, the handling of different media and the importance of process in the work. The list of artists included Lotte Funke, Louis le Brocquy, Patrick Scott and Brian Maguire, to name but a few, the 4th year students were then invited to make their own observations and responses to the work.
As part of their assessment the students had to create an original piece giving thought to subject and media. Their chosen subject had to relate to one or more elements of the biological control module using appropriate and original sense of scale and the context clearly indicated in the title and text.
“I was impressed with the students work and their ability to show their thought processes and engagement with topic through a creative medium, I imagine that the opportunity to do this module as part of their degree will offer them the option to engage creatively with their subject matter throughout their careers.” – Julie Forrester.
See more images of the work created by the students:
afarmersLament
arborescence copy
arborescence
ergotElementsOfDisease
fungalFrontlines
lonelyBeech
Musabanana
penecillium
pestyDiseases
Picnic
plantsRoots detail
plantsRoots
redskyInthemorningLandscape
seedsOfSustainablility
soilClose
soilSearching
Cruinniú na nÓg | Follow Your Nose!
Saturday 7 June 2pm – 4pm
We have been following our noses into art with Cork Migrant Centre Youth. We meet online on Saturdays to chat, draw, make things, talk about our week and have silly fun. Artist Julie Forrester comes to each session with a suggested creative idea or technique. Then, we follow our nose!
This Cruinniú na nÓg, we are excited to move from the screen into the real world for a special visit to experiment and share real materials, to follow our noses into the ever more creative labyrinths of our collective imagination.
You can find out more about Cork Migrant Centre here.
Tuesday, 26 August 2025 at 11.30am 46 Grand Parade (T12 VN56).
In late 2024, Crawford Supported Studio’s member Tom O’Sullivan was awarded a Cork City Council Visibility Bursary Pilot Award, supported also by the Arts Council of Ireland. This award enabled Tom to embark on an ambitious mentorship with artist Róisín O'Sullivan.
Tom and Róisín will host a relaxed show and tell event on Tuesday 26 August 2025 at 11.30am at 46 Grand Parade (T12 VN56).
Express yourself as a butterfly or a fantastic winged creature. Make butterfly masks, colour and play.
We are delighted to participate in Youthquake an exciting event led by Midsummer Youth Assembly. Youthquake promises to be a joyful day of music, creativity and community.
This event is drop-in, no booking is required and art materials are supplied.
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